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Surgery was for a long time the only way to treat cancer and it remains the cornerstone of modern therapy.
Technical progress in surgery, anaesthesiology and intensive care has improved its efficiency.
It is now an integrated part of treatment and the exact timing of surgery is an important factor for its success. Approximately half of curable cancer patients can be cured of their disease by surgery. An efficient therapeutic association, adapted for each particular patient emerges from the restrospective study of the clinical results obtained by surgery and collegial multidisciplinary integration.
The following points are covered:
General principles of cancer surgery
- The multidisciplinary pre-therapeutic discussion
- The surgical operative report
- Usual clinical situations
- The concept of en bloc excision
- Main clinical situations
- Limits of en bloc excision
- Role of elective lymph node dissection
- Example of breast cancer
- Other examples
Other chapters of this website
- Natural history of cancer
- Cancer prevention
- Cancer screening
- Cancer diagnosis
- Tumour markers
- Principles of Cancer Classification
- Cancer surgery
- Cancer radiotherapy
- Cancer chemotherapy
- Cancer hormonotherapy
- Other cancer therapies
- Multidisciplinary approach of cancer patients
- Psychological aspects
- Post-therapeutic follow-up
- Palliative care in cancer
- Cancer emergencies
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